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February 27 - March 5, 2009 The Independent Weekly 10 www.independentweekly.com.au Don’t move the RAH On February 4 I attended the public meeting organised by the Save the RAH Action Group. I spoke and strongly supported retaining and redeveloping the RAH on its current site. I was part of Parliament’s Public Works Committee when the new emergency section was approved. The renovation has since been recognised a state-of-the-art development. The plan was to redevelop, as has happened with the Burns Unit. The nurses’ quarters were to be demolished and a new patient wing was to follow – as was the redevelopment of the east wing. This has not happened. Why? I have door-knocked and spoken to voters at shopping centres. Overwhelmingly they support retaining the RAH on its present site. Joe Scalzi Liberal candidate for Tranmere Secret files Our exclusive story last week which revealed for the first time that the State Government is holding secret files naming thousands of ordinary South Australians who don’t know they’re been spied on has filled the mailbox. You’ll find many more comments on our website (www. independentweekly.com.au). It is interesting that the SA (Labor) Government now does what the late Premier Don Dunstan (Labor) said should not be done. He abolished SAPOL’s Special Branch in an effort to ensure that it wouldn’t happen again, evidently to no avail. The public needs to ensure that police and governmental powers and records are as open as is prudentially possible. My book Police Forces of the World (Zeus Publications, 2006) draws on worldwide histories to recommend how supervision by the people can be achieved, and my novel You could BANK on it (Pasini Press, 2008), contains a chapter in which the Salisbury affair is outlined. WH Watson Valley View Pulling together the threads from several excellent stories by Hendrik Gout paints a disturbing picture for civil liberties in SA. In The numbers game (IW, February 13) wewere warned people can be jailed without charge, merely on grounds of secret allegations, the details of which can be lawfully withheld from the accused, negating any chance of mounting a legal defence. In Secret files (IW, February 20) wewere told Government agencies hold dossiers on a wide range of people, simply on the basis of unsubstantiated allegations. The fact religious belief can constitute legal justification for compiling these files is even greater cause for concern, given the extreme beliefs known to be zealously held by our chief law officer, the Attorney General. It’s easy to imagine him, like Ko-Ko in The Mikado, adding to his list the names of the people who “should not be missed“. And speaking of zealots, is it drawing too long a bow to CROSSWORD AND SUDOKU 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 18 21 22 26 28 29 23 27 30 31 14 19 24 15 16 20 25 17 wonder if Senator Xenaphon – despite protesting he is not a Brian Harradine (IW 20 Feb) – has his own private agenda concerning moral or social issues? Vincent Burke Unley The issue of the secret files goes deeper than the Serious and Organised Crime Act, 102 new laws that no-one was told about, changes to the Bail and Warrants Acts for police to issue their own, and the Government’s refusal to have an ICAC. We need a Bill of Rights at a constitutional level. It needs to be simple and clear – like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. This SA Government has broken every rule in that one for starters. Paul Kuhn Morphett Vale The Fear Industry is growing strong in SA, handing real power to men in the shadows and making the Government a puppet. Weak-minded politicians working the “law and order” ticket with moral panic have handed over our lives for bullying. This is really scary, the same method used by the Stasi secret police. Thank heavens for newsmen like Hendrik Gout. Guy Stanford Gladesville NSW (formerly of Seacliff, SA) I find men with long beards and high check bones attractive, just like Osama. You better get someone on my tail Atkinson, you never know what I could be up to. Name withheld by request Why X is no Z It is very unfair to compare Nick Xenophon with Brian Harradine (IW, February 20). The lower lakes are a national treasure along with the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and our rain forests. Less than 1 per cent of Australians live near the Barrier Reef but that does not make it less significant for the other 99 per cent. If Nick X did not hold out for some concessions he letters would have been branded as the wimp who let us down. History will regard Nick X as one of the most insightful and effective politicians this country has seen. Paul Witt Bellevue Heights Marine parks are great As our population increases our marine environment will be pressured by overfishing and pollution, which contribute to habitat loss. SA has some of the most diverse and pristine marine environments in the world but without marine parks this might not be the case in 20 years. It’s important to put a marine parks network in place now before our marine environments become degraded that there’s nothing left to protect. Successive governments failed to manage the River Murray,which is dying along with the industries and communities it supports. We can’t let that happen in the marine environment. The best way to provide real and effective protection is to ensure that SA’s marine parks contain large, strictly protected sanctuary zones. These “no-take” zones will help fish stocks recover and boost sustainable industries such as eco-tourism whilst still allowing non-damaging recreational pursuits such as diving, sailing and surfing. Thatway our kids and grandkids can enjoy the same marine benefits as we do now. Shen Dycer Adelaide ? The Independent Weekly is investigating the proposals – and arguments – about SA’s new marine parks system, for a report soon to be published. Lost worlds It’s true that the State’s excellent collection of celluloid film is “flickering” (IW, February 13) after many neglectful years, but not yet out. It still has potential as an arts resource. The 16mm film medium is often dismissed as outdated, superseded, too difficult. But the retrospective of experimental films in the film festival was shown at the Mercury entirely in 16mm film brought from interstate. Adelaide has just hosted the documentary film conference. Bruce Beresford will be in town for a festival discussion this Saturday (February 28). Beresford’s first film, a protest documentary, lies padlocked under State Library control at Hindmarsh. Imported for the Hellenic film festival was Melina Mercouri’s Athens, along with Peter Ustinov’s St Petersburg, Glenn Gould’s Toronto, John Huston’s Dublin and Studs Terkel’s Chicago. It is in the major cities series once all accessible to South Australians. Wemay be proud of our Adelaide, but could we not learn from other sophisticated cities too? Creditable holding work has been done recently with fractions of the state collection by both State Library and Flinders University Library. When will the state seriously consider what to do in accessible ways with the whole of its valuable art and information film resource? David Donaldson Prospect Prints of George Aldridge’s cartoons are available by e-mailing aldridge_george@ yahoo.com.au Have your say at www.independentweekly.com.au Letter of the week With all the prizes being awarded during the film festival, it’s only appropriate that we give our own away. David Donaldson, come collect your two Coriole! Letters of not more than 200 words, please, can be e-mailed to editorial@ independentweekly.com.au or sent to GPO Box 114, Adelaide 5000. Correspondents must include a full postal address for verification purposes. Letters may be edited. go to www.independentweekly.com.au to get your daily online sudoku ACROSS 1 Hard work 4 Revised 8 Portion 11 Surrendered 12 Mace (3-4) 13 Smoko (3-5) 15 Cloth measure 17 Middle 18 Most 32 33 34 35 21 Marsupial 23 Era 24 Capital of Syria 36 41 44 45 49 51 52 46 50 37 42 47 38 39 43 48 40 28 Combine 29 Detest 30 Madman 32 Louder 34 Wrong 35 Hindu 53 54 55 submissive 40 Puzzle 41 Of the side 44 Haven 46 Good (Fr.) 47 Submitting 51 Retaining ring 52 City in Ohio 53 Vertical 54 Spanish American coin 55 Show indifference 36 Engrossed 38 Not many religious instructor DOWN 1 Sailor 2 Greek letter 3 Take turns 4 Aglow 5 Dines 6 Cheat (coll.) 7 Sun-up 8 China-ware 9 Striking effect 10 Badges 14 N.Z. parrot 15 Supplement 16 Lysergic acid (abb.) 19 Intellectual (coll.) 20 Loftiest 22 Weds 25 Curved sword 26 Archangel 27 Judge 31 Talking (sl.) 33 Erratic 35 Deeners 36 Extinct ox 37 Peck 38 Marsh 39 Route 42 Tropical bird 43 Vital urge 45 Compel 48 Bury 49 Long poem 50 Side pilaster 436 6 4 2 3 7 4 18 7 16 92 1 693 386 798 5 JANRIC Classic Sudoku is an 81 square number grid with nine blocks each containing nine cells. To solve the puzzle, all the blank cells must be filled in using numbers from 1 to 9. Each number can only appear once in each row, column and in the nine 3x3 blocks. You can successfully solve the puzzle just by using logic and the process of elimination. Answers on Page 40 9